Here’s a presentation that puts in perspective some of he challenges awaiting me while developing part of the SAPO Campus project.
Some early thoughts on this:
The idea to create an open, widget-based platform was very well received. It is as such intended that the development process doesn’t grind to a stop once the project is finished, and that people continue to make new widgets available, allowing the platform to get on with the times.
However, there’s an urgent need to deepen my research on the ways to manage and visualize large sets of news content, and paper-based low-fi prototypes must be developed as soon as possible, in order to settle down ideas and get some early user feedback.
With all that said, I’ve also posted the presentation here, if Portuguese is more your cup of tea.
A collection of videos and slideshow presentations from this year’s FOWA is online here. FOWA is a conference about, well, the future of web applications. Quite an interesting read, if you’re into this sort of thing.
Yesterday I had a Seminar class about Web 2.0 and the way it’s affecting education. A few videos were shown, and two of them, made by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Kansas. Since I’m studying the impact of Web 2.0 technologies in Higher Education for my Masters Thesis (I blog about it in Portuguese), I thought it would be fun to include the videos here. For those who haven’t seen them yet, at least! (…) more after the jump ›
Since at least the birth of the graphical web browser, we’ve been used to read webpages vertically, from top to bottom. This has become such a given that it actually feels awkward to scroll horizontally in almost every app (web or desktop) I can remember. Point nr. 3 of this article by Mr. Jakob Nielsen (an article which, let’s face it, I would have never have found if it weren’t for Google) actually states that horizontal web-design is a mistake. But this was written in 2002. (…) more after the jump ›
Yup, an official release of OpenOffice from Sun version 3.0 has arrived! I’ve just downloaded it, and gave Writer (the Word-type app) a little whirl. The interface seems a little sluggish on the Mac, with several menus and actions taking quite some time to execute when you first click them (after you’ve used it once, it’s fast enough). Even with those little faults, hey, I’m not complaining, it’s free, open source and it’s still faster than Microsoft Word on my OS X system. OpenOffice should be fine for my slim office suite needs. Give it a download and share your experiences!
